"Einmal in Der Woche Schreien"

Monkeytown

Artists:

Siriusmo is Moritz Friedrich, a Berlin-based electronic producer with a decade's worth of singles on labels like Monkeytown and Grand Petrol under his belt, who recently released his debut LP, Mosaik. Like many of his contemporaries, Moritz freely riffles through electronic genres from house and electro to dubstep and disco, often with a healthy dollop of American West Coast hip-hop influence. The constants are his elastic, high-relief sound and live instrumentalist's sense of comprehensive arrangement (he's a keyboardist and big Stevie Wonder fan), which are both showcased on this ebullient electro-pop confection from Mosaik. The minor key bass drop near the beginning is like a tremor of unease on a perfect day, but it passes quickly, and the staticky chords and granulated vocal samples stay cloudlessly bright for the remainder. The basic melody, infectious in its own right, gets stuffed with earworms: Sweet little vocal ornaments mimicking tiny rave sirens, a robotic talk-bass breakdown, and keenly tuned misfires kinetically swerving up and down. Like Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor," it's a sleek and well-built whole that whizzes and pings screwily on the inside. You can tell Moritz doesn't take himself too seriously; the melodic and technical skills with which he unleashes this rush of pure good feeling are serious enough.